Reviewer:
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February 22, 2012
Subject:
Can anyone explain why this film is in the public domain?
Does anyone know about the copyright of films that were made in the Soviet era of Russia when it was the USSR or other Eastern European countries like Yugoslavia, East Germany and Czechoslovakia that no longer exist?
This is a wonderful film by the late great Russian film director Richard Viktorov as is Teens in the Universe..my all time favourite is Cherez ternii k zvyozdam AKA To The Stars By Hard Ways which was one of the last films he directed (I have a copy of his last film Kometa if anyone would like to help translate into English so I can make some subtitles).
Russian and Eastern European science-fiction,fantasy and horror films made during the communist era are fascinating to watch and in many instances, they far out shine their western counterparts (and I am from the UK)...